Humans are used to ordering around other humans who would bring common sense and laziness to the table and probably not grind up humans to produce a few more paperclips.
Alignment is about getting the AGI to be aligned with the owners, ignoring it means potentially putting more and more power into the hands of a box that you aren't quite sure is going to do the thing you want it to do. Alignment in the context of AGIs was always about ensuring the owners could control the AGIs not that the AGIs could solve philosophy and get all of humanity to agree.
> Whoa whoa whoa, we can't let just anyone run these models. Only large corporations who will use them to addict children to their phones and give them eating disorders and suicidal ideation, while radicalizing adults and tearing apart society using the vast profiles they've collected on everyone through their global panopticon, all in the name of making people unhappy so that it's easier to sell them more crap they don't need (a goal which is itself a problem in the face of an impending climate crisis). After all, we wouldn't want it to end up harming humanity by using its superior capabilities to manipulate humans into doing things for it to optimize for goals that no one wants!
That’s neither efficient nor optimized, just a bogeyman for “doesn’t work”.
Of course destroying the planet to get iron from its core is not a popular agi-doomer analogy, as that sounds a bit too human-like behaviour.
Of course, I hope to be uploaded to the WIP dyson swarm around the sun at this point.
(Doomers are, broadly, singularitarians who went "wait, hold on actually.")